Posted by the leg
on May 19, 2012, 4:25 pm
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What do Toolstation League Willand Rovers do better than most of the Southern Premier Club and all of the Southern League South & West teams (both those Division’s are the next steps up from the level the Silver Street side play at) - and a lot of Conference League Clubs? The answer is, ‘produce a better match day programme!’ The Willand Rovers match day effort was judged amongst an entry of 1,030 programmes from Non League Clubs the length and breadth of the country on the 2011/12 Non league Programme of the Year awards, and was placed a magnificent 16th! The winners were Conference South side Chelmsford City who beat Northern league outfit Marske United for the top spot with Combined Counties’ Epsom & Ewell taking third spot. Leamington from the Southern League Premier were fourth and Northern Premier League side Rushall Olympic were placed fifth with Stockport County of the Conference in sixth and Conference North outfit Boston United seventh. Rovers were 16th with Poole Town 18th and Conference pair Barrow and Grimsby Town sharing 21st spot.The Rovers review is edited by Steve Birley with Rob Mitchell and Trevor Stamp the two club stalwarts who take on his editorial efforts and then put it all together as a match day offering. Birley says: “I sit at my pc and spend the six or so hours each match day publication involves, but then Rob (Mitchell) and Trevor (Stamp) begin the thankless task of photo copying and collating the pages and then putting them together and stapling them up. The latter is certainly time consuming. To win this sort of recognition from a national competition is testament to the hard work the boys have put in from August to May. It makes all the effort so worthwhile.”On the actual programme itself, Birley says: “I have to say a big, big part of the programmes success is the advertising that it carries. We tried this year to avoid the standard page after page of adverts with a page, in general, having an advert and either an article to read or a picture to view, that, in my humble opinion, at least means there is more chance that the advert is going to get noticed, even read, for all too often I see programmes that have page after page of adverts and the reader will generally flick through them and take his or her eyes to the actual content. In our programme we strive to have content on every page.” Rovers Chairman Mike Mitchell said: “I am delighted for the team of people who help put the match day publication together. Having such a well recognised and heralded match programme certainly helps our commercial team hopefully generate even more business on next season’s programme. I am really delighted for all concerned that next year in the Rovers review we can carry the wording -'amongst the top 20 programmes nationally
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